BRIAR PIPE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does briar pipe mean? 

• BRIAR PIPE (noun)
  The noun BRIAR PIPE has 1 sense:

1. a pipe made from the root (briarroot) of the tree heath

  Familiarity information: BRIAR PIPE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRIAR PIPE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A pipe made from the root (briarroot) of the tree heath

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

briar; briar pipe

Hypernyms ("briar pipe" is a kind of...):

pipe; tobacco pipe (a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco)

 Context examples 

In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set aquiline features.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Among his minor peculiarities are that he is careless as to his attire, unclean in his person, exceedingly absent-minded in his habits, and addicted to smoking a short briar pipe, which is seldom out of his mouth.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)